HOPE ASSEMBLY OF BIBLE CHRISTIANS - Notice of Closure

October 23, 2015 - Mississauga, ON, Canada

To Our Brethren and Sisters in Christ, Members of the Household of Faith

With a mixture of sorrow and gratitude to God for His faithful mercies to us over 27 years, we must announce that Hope Assembly of Bible Christians in Mississauga held its final Meeting for Worship and the Lord's Table on Tuesday 13 October 2015.

The Church commenced public worship and witness on 10 September 1988 and was chartered as an independent congregation on 14 January 1990. In the course of our life as a people, we have met in 7 successive venues from private homes to schools and community halls, and operated a pastoral centre for 2 years. We had one Pastor/Elder, and one Deacon, and baptized some 12 believers. Our efforts to spread the Gospel included open air meetings, 7 years of weekly "Grace and Truth" radio broadcasts, home visitation, hospital services, literature tables in malls and articles in local newspapers. The Church held affiliation with the Association of Regular Baptist Churches (Canada) for 13 years, and the Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America for 8 years.

God's providences to us, including a decline in membership, the difficulty of finding public meeting space, and Pastor Bodner's health issues, have led us to this step.

We are thankful to the Pastors, Elders, Deacons and People of many sister Churches for their love, fellowship and prayers over the years.

We wish to commend to believers two books Pastor Bodner has written out of his ministry and experience, believing they can profit the soul and stimulate prayerful searching of the Scriptures, especially for pastors:
The House of God: A Book of Meditations on Paul's First Epistle to Timothy (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013) ISBN # 978-1-6203-687-9.

Now may the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work todo His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ( Hebrews 13:20-21. )

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The Real Gospel

A Rolex watch for $19.99? Not likely. An offer too good to be true is just too good to be true.

We live in a world of fakes, frauds and knock-offs, don't we?

Little wonder these days that our holy faith too suffers from fakes and frauds, sometimes “as seen on TV”! The conflict between true and false religion runs throughout the Bible from Cain and Abel at the start, to Christ and Antichrist at the end.

The apostle John warns us of this danger in his First Epistle (2:18-19; 4:1-3; 5:18-21). And in 1 John 5:5-13, he sets forth “the real Gospel” which is ours to have and hold forth to a lost world.

The Record puts it down (v. 11-13). Our real need as fallen sinners, who “abide in death” as “children of the devil” (3:10, 14) is for “eternal life.” (v. 11) God has freely, graciously “given us eternal life” we were helpless and undeserving to win, “and this life is in His Son.” “He was manifested to take away our sin, and in Him is no sin.” (3:5) By simple, personal faith, “he that hath the Son hath life”(v. 12), receiving and believing the love of God which sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins, the Saviour of the world (4:10, 14-16). We have direct access to know and trust Christ Jesus through what His apostles and prophets have “written, that ye may believe… that ye may know.” (v. 13; 1:1-4). “This is the message…. The Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin” (1:5-7).

Have you got the record? Have you received the witness? The witness of God is now before you. You may believe the record God has given of His Son now (v. 10, 13) from the pages of the open Bible. You may receive in your own heart the witness of “the water, the blood and the Spirit” on earth certified by the witness of the “Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost” in heaven, as you believe on the Son of God and have eternal life (v. 9, 13). This is the real Gospel -

I am coming, Lord! coming now to Thee!
Wash me, cleanse me in the Blood, that flowed on Calvary!